5 of UP family found dead, murder-suicide suspected

PRAYAGRAJ: Five members of a family were found dead inside their residence in Khagalpur village of Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district on Saturday, police said adding that they suspected it to be a case of murder-suicide.

Police said the bodies of the 38-year-old woman and her three daughters (aged 14, 10 and eight) were found with their throats slit open in the bedroom, while the 42-year-old man was found hanging from a noose in the courtyard of the house.

The bodies were spotted by a neighbour, who informed the police around 7 am on Saturday, said an official. Senior superintendent of police (Prayagraj) Ajay Kumar said a two-page handwritten note was recovered from the house, which blamed a property dispute between the man and his in-laws for the incident. The note also mentioned the names of some of the family members of the he added.

“All bodies have been sent for a post-mortem examination. On the basis of the post-mortem reports and evidence gathered from the scene, action would be taken against the guilty and no one will be spared,” Kumar said, adding that seven teams have been formed to probe the case.

Based on a complaint filed by the deceased man’s elder brother, police registered an FIR against four members of the woman’s family. Local residents said the man was a trader dealing in cattle, and the family was living as tenants in Khagalpur, Nawabganj for the past few years.

Soon after the incident, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav attacked the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government for “drowning” the state in crime. “Under the rule of BJP government 2.0, UP has drowned in crime. Today’s crime list,” he tweeted in Hindi.

Replying to Yadav, Additional Director General, Prayagraj zone, Prem Prakash tweeted: “A prelimiwoman, probe indicates that the house owner killed his family before committing suicide due to a family dispute.”

Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said, “The incident is being probed expeditiously. The reason behind it will be known (after the probe). The guilty will not be spared.”

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